Web Services - Best Practices and Examples
Several resources are available for learning how to design and implement efficient and extensible LabVIEW applications that provide web services for networked clients. This document is a collection of documentation, presentations, and example programs for LabVIEW Web Services. Get your smartphone or tablet connected!
Documentation
For when you want to just RTFM....
Hosting a Web Service
The LabVIEW Help explains the theory of operation and provides tutorials for creating web services in a project. Looking in the LabVIEW Help, the topic "LabVIEW Web Services" discusses topics from an introductory to expert level, ranging from configuring a web service to debugging and scripting web services.
Querying a Web Service
The LabVIEW Help also explains the theory of operation for the HTTP Client VI palette, which provides an API for an application to query a web service and interact with it. Refer to the "HTTP Client VIs" for more information.
Examples
For when you want to see it in G.
From the LabVIEW Developers
LabVIEW also installs examples that demonstrate best practices for writing VIs that host web services. The examples are placed in the folder <LabVIEW root>\examples\comm\webservices. Follow these examples to write a web service that can send data to and recieve commands from a smartphone or tablet.
From the Community Developers
In addition to this group's examples, the community has written some examples that illustrate how to write VIs that query web services. Follow these examples to write a VI (or executable) that can recieve data from or send commands to a web service.
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